One place that you encounter music without fail is at sporting events. The day of a game music wakes up early to energize the players (or fans). It is not the slow, relaxing kind of music but more of an upbeat, energizing sound. The music pumps you up and gets your adrenalin flowing. Before you can perform (or cheer) you need to be syked and ready to take on the world. This fast past music is kept up throughout the entire game to help pull you through the rough spots. At the end, if you win then you celebrate with songs such as “We are the Champions”. However if you lose….ouch. Sometimes playing music that is angrier helps to release the feelings of disappointment if it was a bad/close game. Afterwards relaxing music is in order. You have been hyped up on adrenalin all day and it is tiring, time to relax and rest.
In my personal experience with sports I usually start out the day of a game with a variety of music. More often than not it is a lot of today’s popular music, for example “Watcha Say” “I’m Goin In” and “Just to Fight”. During our game we have what we call walk out songs. This whenever you come up to bat a certain song will be played to pump you up and ‘intimidate’ the opposing defense. If I win it is the popular music of today that is upbeat and will keep the high going. If we lose…. it varies. I may listen to Linkin Park or Papa Roach or a harder metal band, it depends on the loss. Either way, music is vital in any kind of sporting event.
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Its very hard to disagree with what your saying. It does hurt when the play the champion song and you lose. I also agree with the fact that how you perform dtermines what music you listen too. Nice post.
ReplyDeletei also wrote about sporting events in my blog. as atheltes i think music is a tool that we use every time we are about to compete (or at least i do). it would be hard for me to imagine a sporting event with no music. btw i love the walk out song think you guys do! i wish we could do it in volleyball but that would be kinda hard i guess lol
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